Gustavo Arribas
{{Short description|Argentine politician}}
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| office = Director-General of the Federal Intelligence Agency of Argentina
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| term_start = 10 December 2015
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| party = Republican Proposal
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Gustavo Arribas (born 25 November 1958){{Cite web |last=Clarín |first=Redacción |date=3 December 2015 |title=Perfil: "El Negro" Arribas, del Grupo Pádel y con negocios en el fútbol |url=https://www.clarin.com/politica/gustavo_arribas-mauricio_macri_0_BJrPtJFDXl.html |access-date=7 June 2024 |website=Clarín |language=es}} is an Argentine scribe and politician. He was the Director-General of the Federal Intelligence Agency of Argentina. He headed the agency from December 2015{{Cite web |last=Cronista.com |date=12 December 2015 |title=En inusual Boletín Oficial, el Gobierno designó funcionarios en la AFI y la Sindicatura General |url=https://www.cronista.com/economia-politica/En-inusual-Boletin-Oficial-el-Gobierno-designo-funcionarios-en-la-AFI-y-la-Sindicatura-General-20151212-0001.html |access-date=7 June 2024 |website=www.cronista.com |language=es}} to December 2019.
Career
Prior to heading the Federal Intelligence Agency, Arribas was an agent and broker for professional soccer players.{{cite book|author=Roger Kittleson|title=The Country of Football: Soccer and the Making of Modern Brazil|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CvMPAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA208|date=12 June 2014|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-95825-8|page=208}}
Corruption allegations
Arribas was accused by Brazilian police of receiving $850,000 through a money-laundering scheme.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/01/world/americas/argentina-brazil-corruption.html |newspaper=The New York Times |title=Argentina's Top Spy Accused in Brazil Corruption Case |first1=Daniel |last1=Politi |first2=Ernesto |last2=Londoño |date=March 1, 2018}}
Arribas was also investigated for possibly accepting a bribe of $600,000 from Odebrecht in 2013.{{cite news |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-brazil-corruption-latinamerica/latin-american-prosecutors-join-forces-on-odebrecht-bribes-idUSKBN15W2H7 |work=Reuters |quote=A federal judge in Argentina is seeking information from Brazil and Switzerland to determine whether President Mauricio Macri’s spy chief, Gustavo Arribas, took a $600,000 bribe from Odebrecht in 2013 when he was a private citizen. |first=Anthony |last=Boadle |editor-first=Mary |editor-last=Milliken |title=Latin American prosecutors join forces on Odebrecht bribes |date=February 17, 2017}}
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Category:Directors of intelligence agencies
Category:People of Argentine intelligence agencies
Category:People named in the Panama Papers
Category:Argentine football agents
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